bandy legs
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Near them, a villager with bandy legs and a bulbous neck tumour is digging into the sand with half a white plastic plate and pouring it into a large bucket.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2012
He would unselfconsciously offer up his seamed face to the questioning fingers of blind fans and trot up the grandstand on his bandy legs to patiently chat with people in wheelchairs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2012
At 12, while a boarder at Fredville Park private school near Dover, she took dancing lessons, initially to straighten bandy legs.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2011
Sturdy bulldog of newspapers, with bandy legs and a coarse voice, it glared at rivals, referred to itself as "the World's Greatest Newspaper."
From Time Magazine Archive
He glowered at the chaplain with swollen fury for a moment, his good humor gone, and turned back toward the bar disgruntledly, rolling from side to side like a sailor on his short bandy legs.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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